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- From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: Using $*, but pattern doesn't match
- Originator: tchrist@pixel.convex.com
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- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.214517.555@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 21:45:17 GMT
- Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
- References: <1992Aug25.181818.13613@advtech.uswest.com> <120@eiffel.eiffel.com>
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- From the keyboard of ram@eiffel.com (Raphael Manfredi):
- :You have to use [.\n] if you want to match anything.
-
- Sorry, [] is a nonmagical zone, so your dot is a literal.
- Often we use [^\0] to mean (just about) anything.
-
- --tom
- --
- Tom Christiansen tchrist@convex.com convex!tchrist
-
- Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
- --Larry Wall in <2969@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
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